[Bug] Buffalo Cart and contents totally disappear after buffalo gets killed

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I have now had two occurrences of different maps and mission where I have cleared out an entire cave of minerals and loaded the buffalo cart and lost the entire cart and contents. Buffalo gets attacks and dies and car and contents disappears with buffalo. Please fix, should leave cart and contents intact when buffalo dies. It worked when it first came out but one of the updates broke this.

Known issue Follow Up Mounts Suggested by: George (16 Mar, '23) • Upvoted: 22 Jan • Comments: 17

Comments: 17

16 Mar, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
Hi there, I've just tested this and all of my cart contents including the cart come back in an overflow bag. (I have found one bug where the heavy item slots don't return items, and have passed this over to a dev to look into). Do you have any videos or screenshots of this happening? Where abouts on the map were you when this happened? Could the overflow bag have been flung somewhere nearby? Thanks!
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18 Mar, '23
Wyze Merged
I rode my buffalo with a "Basic Riding Saddle" to a distant cave to harvest resources and carried the "Buffalo Pack Harness" in the inventory of the empty "Basic Riding Saddle". Arriving at the cave I was attempting to swap the "Basic Riding Saddle" and "Buffalo Pack Harness". The plan was to fill the "Buffalo Pack Harness" and then walk back to camp with all of the resources on the buffalo. HOWEVER, I did not pull the "Buffalo Pack Harness" out of the inventory of the "Basic Riding Saddle" before pulling it off of the buffalo. Pulling the Saddle off caused the "Buffalo Pack Harness" to completely vanish. It would be nice if it could at least drop into a lootable on the ground when a player makes this mistake or even attempt to go directly into the player inventory rather than completely vanish.
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18 Mar, '23
George
Overflow bad was not where in area and I searched in cave below area to see if it dropped into cave. Buffalo was killed by a Moe. I will lookup mission and map coordinates and update notes.
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18 Mar, '23
George
Here is screenshot of location, J7 in Research Plating mission and buffalo mount with cart was killed on top of rocky outcrop where red circle is drawn on map.
19 Mar, '23
Jean-Marc Merged
Twice on a few days games, my buffalo (and me) got killed by a bear (open world, Olympus) Twice I was able to recover all my personal gear and inventory, But everything the buffaloes carried disappeared (in a cart with a mega mine loot, and in the large saddle with dehumidifier, drills, stone building parts...) It take forever to replace all this. Frankly, at this point, I do not see the point in continuing playing. Great game otherwise. This happened on March 17 and today March 19.
20 Mar, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"BUG: Vanishing "Buffalo Pack Harness"" (suggested by Wyze on 2023-03-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Mar, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"buffalo cargo vanished" (suggested by Jean-Marc on 2023-03-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
20 Mar, '23
Jean-Marc
Elissa, the buffalo with the cart completely full of gear and ores vanished March 17 in the narrow passage along H3. My personal inventory was marked as a grave sign and fully recovered. The second buffalo was with the pack saddle, maybe 12 of the 16 slots used. I happen March 19 in E3 (lower right corner, south of the river in a forest. Again, I later recovered all my inventory and worn clothes marked with a tombstone. I play solo on Olympus open world. I have not done any missions yet. I wonder what happened there and why. (I previously recovered buffalo's cart/saddle contents without trouble. Thank you in advance.
20 Mar, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
This issue should be fixed in a weekly update sometime in the next couple of weeks! Thanks for all your comments.
08 Apr, '23
George
this time had cart and mount disappear while diving into under water caves on IRONCLAD: Research Mission in lake at grid J7. I left mount with cart floating on water in middle of lake where under water cave entrance is. Went to cave on the right and mined and returned to load cart. Then when I went to second cave on left and mined and returned, no buffalo , no cart, no cargo bag, totally disappeared
20 Nov, '23
Hocky54 Merged
When animal towing cart dies you loose cart and its full load!
23 Nov, '23
Darena Bryant Merged
As it is, the cart is kind of a ghost. It's not a solid item (you can walk right through it, it sticks to walls and ceilings as much as it does the ground, you can't ride in it because it's not there to ride in), and so it doesn't exist outside of being linked to the mount. I would be willing to accept this being changed to the cart being a solid item if it also meant it remained behind in case of an accident with your mount and you could unload it over time, or that the player could move it, even very slowly, when it was empty.
23 Nov, '23
MaximT
1) To prevent such situations, I recommend making a complete save of your character’s progress. With it, in case of any unforeseen problems, it will always be easy to do a ‘full rollback’.
(including everyone reading this): always regularly save your Icarus to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves.)
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\”name your windows account”\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved
Including to avoid such problems here as well.

2) You can also try to ‘roll back’ the save via a backup file, which is done every half hour or when you exit to the ‘character selection’ menu; until the loss of inventory occurred.
A fairly detailed description (by analogy)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/0/3875967397723071447/#c3875967397724100870
27 Nov, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"[Bug] When cart is destroyed on animal death you lose it's inventory" (suggested by Hocky54 on 2023-11-20), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Jan
RaylanGiveNZ
As per the comment above from Wyze (18 Mar, '23)

I directly switched from the Buffalo Harness to the Cart as I needed more transport space. When I did so, the Overflow bag appeared, but the Bulky items vanished. Two Electric Extractors.

Granted, when I did the swap I was next to my shack. So the overflow bag appear on the roof, not on the ground. So it may be that I thought I had collected everything, and didn't go back to double check the overflow bag was empty until it was too late (24 hours game time, and a reload later....)
22 Jan
The Space Prophet Merged
I now have had 2 instances where items kept in cart attached to buffalo disappear when I log back in.
Another event that happens concurrently is a session timeout when logging in.

Workaround I have to use is ensuring that there is a way for me to off load items before logging out. Unfortunately that creates problems when that's not possible and it limits my game experience.

I can work around it but this will turn some people off the game,

Further information will be shared to provide better understanding.
22 Jan
Elissa - Producer Admin
"[ BUG ] Loss of items from a cart attached to animals" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.